KILLED BY WOLVES

Hawera Star, Volume L, 17 May 1930, Page 8

KILLED BY WOLVES

VICTIM,.OF A\ANpERLU^T. GERMAN .AUTHOR’S, FATE. A victim of wanderlust, which led him to run away' Train" libmo' iis u hoy, Dr. 'Kurt Faber. German' travel writer, was ; killed recently by wolves art; the Bairren Lands, north,' of the Alberta •boundary, where the, Ndr.th T weist Mountj ed Police found his remain*. Faber had Hornby’s, love of the; Barren Lands acid the White Sileilce. Both, returned there and perished''there, ; miserably, ®»y» the New 'Zealand' “Herald’s YadcoUTer twrespb.ii dent. ! ' ’BetiVeeh his tramps abroad, on whu.a lie travelled airfi hobo," walking, canoes •fhV' and ' s utilising any available means of transit-, Faber found time to graduate at the University of .Wurzburg. Dit Kurt Martyri, ’German Consul at \Vm r ii jpeg j' encountered "him in 'Canada, Soutb America and South Africa. “Faber started his latest- qdyenture ‘aiul his last,' hecauset lie wanted once moris to see tht : Barren'Lands and to live with' the*'.Etslcimos there.'” said Dr. Martin. ' “His first introduction to the Northland canto when' he ran away m Alaska' with a ti'ihe of Eskimos and came south along' the Mackenzie. River to. Canada’s’ Provinces.’ He was only a boy then. He Had rim away from home land gone to the United -States. -He idled his wiay_across the continent, reaching the wharves of, I San. Francisco, where he was “shanghaied” bn a Norte Pacific whaler, whoso captain, kept him at Work till the shin docked at. Alaska “Though his flair was' economies ‘at the university. Dr. Faber was one of the most accomplished of Germany s adventure and travel writers,’’ explained the consul. “He always wanted to Jive his adventure rather than write it. He carried only meagre quantities of money and; often made. excursions' into sparsely settled countries with vertually no provisions. “In Sao Paolo, Brazil, when i was there iti 1921, Faber'came 'to me, illkept, in tatters, but smiling. He was acclaimed by the- populace, lor he had just talked’from Peru; Two years ago. when d was at ‘Windhdek, South-west ‘Africa’, our paths ’firet "again". He was in trouble.‘blit still smiling. He had charged the "Engine driver with being drunk ail'd delay mg the train. The driver proceeded 'against him and, as Faber refused to seek bail, he .was held in' the lock-up, where he engaged in a hunger ' strike. . When I secured his release he went off again into the in-; tori or, saying lie had no particular destination. "T 'h'eiird of him again, pottering around iii Central Australia, and then lost'track of 1 him lint il last fall, when lie walked into my office at Winnipeg, still : ivith Ills youthful Smile, on his way to the Far North, fie- said 'he would write, if he had the urge, for the German publishing firm of Scherl. “That was his last trek. "'He perished in the .same country as Horiiby, among the Eskimos, whom he said he liked best. He was a bachelor of public economy at Wlirzburg, biiUfi master of public'psychology of the University of the, World.” ••